Mitt Romney IS Dolores Umbridge!

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6. Order of the Phoenix strongly reminded me of a genre from my childhood

Post WW II there was a small genre of kid-lit featuring kids who fought back against the Nazis in various countries in Europe. Naturally I cannot recall a single author or title, but I do remember the plots and characters, and they influenced me a lot. Fascism was evil, and even children could fight back.

One reason I love Phoenix is that it will present an opportunity for my grandson to learn the same lesson, not from a political science course or a history book, but from reading and thinking about this story.

My grandson is not quite 8 years old yet, but we have been slowly working our way through the movies and both I and his mother have been reading the books to him bit by bit. He's too young for politics per se, but the life/death, good/evil, ethical questions have provided a lot of fodder for my conversations with him as he questions what goes on. He'll get there in time, I think when he reads through the books on his own....

And yes, this country is developing a strain of fascism all our own. I want him to know it when he sees it.

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